SOLUTION BRIEF Gridstore 3: Optimized for Service Providers According to industry reports, in 2013 the Microsoft Hyper-V market share grew significantly, accounting for nearly 30% of all virtualization servers shipped. Service providers, in particular, have embraced Hyper-V along with much of the rest of the Microsoft stack, as full-featured and robust, and extremely cost effective. This is important as they are increasingly challenged to meet their customers’ performance SLAs while holding infrastructure costs down. Benefits ■■ D eliver improved application performance with storage that is easy to manage on a per-VM basis because it is purpose built for Hyper-V and virtualization ■■ C ontrol your costs with a solution that scales as your storage needs grow ■■ I ncrease revenue by differentiating service levels with prioritized VMs An ideal storage complement to meet the performance and cost challenges faced by service providers is Gridstore’s scalable storage solution, purpose-built for Hyper-V. Gridstore’s revolutionary Software-Defined-Storage (SDS) solution delivered with either performance or capacity storage nodes, delivers the application performance, value, ease of management and scalability that can help service providers achieve their business objectives. Enabling Service Providers to Increase Revenue with Hyper-V Service providers using Microsoft infrastructure will find Gridstore the perfect complement to their environment. Gridstore accelerates application performance in Microsoft Hyper-V environments by leveraging its patented vController™ that sits on the Hyper-V server and creates a virtual storage stack for each VM to optimize performance and deliver end-to-end quality of service. Application performance can be prioritized on a per-VM basis to deliver the highest levels of service to the customers that have SLAs and need high performance. Gridstore storage nodes deliver impressive IOPS that scale linearly as additional storage nodes are added, all the way up to 250 storage nodes per pool. The grid architecture is ideal for solution providers because it avoids I/O bottlenecks and provides pay-as-you-grow economics, allowing you to purchase just what is needed at any time while avoiding the dreaded forklift upgrades that plague traditional scale-up architectures. Microsoft Integration Gridstore vStores appear as a local SAS drive to the Windows server, so they can be administered using standard Windows administration tools, are 100% compatible with Microsoft clusters, and are even compatible with Storage Spaces. Integration with Microsoft Windows storage functionality provides for a very cost-effective, full-featured storage solution. Tight integration with System Center also enables the option of single-pane-of-glass management. Service providers can use Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to holistically manage and monitor storage in the same way as everything else in the network. SOLUTION BRIEF | GRIDSTORE 3: OPTIMIZED FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS About Gridstore Storage Nodes Gridstore leverages high quality standard or low-IOPS applications. The performance commercial servers that have enter- nodes use flash for caching and rotating prise-grade quality and on-site service media for permanent storage. These storage (as little as four hours if necessary) for its nodes deliver the optimal price/performance storage nodes. Gridstore performance-op- mix for Hyper-V servers. Gridstore storage timized nodes are ideal for delivering the nodes scale from 12TB to 12PB in 12TB IOPS that databases, mixed-load Hyper-V increments and with no I/O bottlenecks, and environments and other performance-hun- deliver linear scalability of IOPS, throughput gry applications require; and capacity-opti- and capacity, allowing service providers to mized nodes for backup/recovery, archive scale when needed with no downtime. Key Highlights ■■ Deliver on SLAs with Quality of Service (TrueQoS™) ■■ Start with what you need today and scale over time With Gridstore’s end-to-end TrueQoS, application per- Starting with a minimum of three nodes, Gridstore’s formance can be prioritized on a per-VM basis to deliver storage solution is fault tolerant and scalable. Add one or highest levels of service to the most critical VMs, and limits more nodes at a time with no downtime. The GridScale™ the noisy, low-priority VMs. Gridstore TrueQoS extends the architecture uses direct I/O from storage nodes to the capabilities of Windows Hyper-V QoS all the way through host servers, eliminating the bottlenecks that clustering the storage stack, and is unique with its ability to deliver or a backbone impose while providing massive parallel end-to-end control from the vController (on the Hyper-V performance. The more nodes in a configuration, the server) to the storage nodes, which allows more of the more network bandwidth, more cache, more processing network bandwidth as well as the storage IOPS to be power and more capacity that ultimately deliver linear utilized for important applications. performance scalability. ■■ Market-leading price/performance According to a lab validation report by ESG, Gridstore Performance Storage Nodes delivered four times the performance at half the cost with 75% fewer drives than similar capacity ISCSI or Fibre Channel SANs. FOLLOW US t US 855.786.7065 /gridstore /company/gridstore US 650.316.5515 /user/GridstoreInc UK +44(0)20 3553 3662 e [email protected] www.gridstore.com © 2014 Gridstore. All rights reserved. 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